Trifecta – Babu to Back

Well, those wacky Trifectans have gotten even wackier!
This week, instead of giving us the third definition of a word, they’ve given us a buffet! Buffet, sadly, does not fall within the alphabetical range of Bab to Bac. But what does?
Why, the 99th page of the Oxford English dictionary!
And to be even wackier, this time they want exactly 99 words!
So even though I’m rarely mentioned for the challenge, I do want to assert myself as wackiest.
so here you go, and enjoy! (And while i’ve used several words in the piece, I did (in an even wackierest twist) actually try and use one correcly!)

Titleless(What? I used all 99 words in the story.)
“I got nothin’”
“What does that mean? You’ve got a whole dictionary page to work with. A whole page!”
“Did you even look at it?” came the rejoinder. “How the hell do I make ‘Babylon’ mean London? And ‘back’ is so amorphous it don’t mean fiddlesticks!”
The first poured himself a Bacardi. The second pulled out a steel shaft, toying with the bacilliform. “Who’s this?” he asked of the armored man under the ‘Merriam-Webster-Trifecta’ banner.
“He’s my bachelor”.
“Woah! I didn’t know you even went that way.”
The first man rolled his eyes. “Did you even read the dictionary?

*Note on today’s post: There’s a much longer version of this which has all the words on the Oxford page, but it was way over 99 so I couldn’t use it. You’re welcome.

Ha! I can admit to you that I had no idea what a bacciliform was until I saw the definiton.
I did, however, have a great line using both babyish and babushka that I had to cut to make the 99 word linit.

I’ve been stumbling around in your blog, El Guapo. I scrolled down too far and was mesmerized by a naked Burt Reynolds, so I clicked him to see where I would go. 🙂 I remember when my sister and I bought that Cosmopolitan magazine new from the store for my mom. Ahh … good times. But I’m back up here now, I’ve listened to Nowhere Man, and I’m impressed you own a hard copy of a dictionary. Very creative 99 words there, sir.

I find that challenge more cool than wacky. And you performed admirably sir, although that should come as a surprise to no one.

Nowhere Man is a great song. My initial thought on seeing that was that the first time I heard it, was the Bee Gees version on their lamentable Sgt Pepper album of the late 1970s. HOWEVER, I just did a quick wikipedia check, and that song is not on the album. Still, I’m SURE it was some kind of bastardized version that I heard.